Kid-friendly places in Victoria

Oceanfront hotel with an indoor pool and a spa.

Hotel with an indoor pool, kitchenette suites and free breakfast.

Hotel with kitchenette suites, an indoor pool and a rooftop restaurant.

Grand old harborfront hotel with an indoor pool and suites.

Waterfront hotel on the harbor, with an indoor pool and suites.

Harborside hotel by a marina, with fridges in the rooms.

Retro, colorful hotel with a pool, suites and kitchenettes.

Harborfront hotel with an indoor pool and suites.

Hotel with kitchenettes, a pool and free breakfast.

Tudor-style inn with suites and free breakfast.

Indoor play area in the mall.

Grill on the water where floatplanes take off and land right alongside.

A diner with a kids' menu.

Cafe that also does pizza, with a kids' menu.

Neapolitan pizza out of a wood-fired oven.

Petting farm in the park, with goats to meet up close.

Big park with a petting farm and a playground.

The province's legislature, a grand stone building with guided tours inside.

Famous display gardens with a hand-carved carousel.

Small aquarium with touch pools of local sea life.

Castle-style mansion museum with stained glass and a tower you can climb.

Shop and working lab full of fossils and dinosaur pieces.

Whale watching trips by boat, out of the harbor downtown.

Floating homes and food stands on the docks, with seals that swim right up.

Rainforest trails along a river under huge old trees.

Breakfast and brunch all day, with big stacks of pancakes.

Boutique hotel with a spa and a pool.

Treetop walkway out to a spiral lookout tower, with a slide back down.

Rooms of tiny hand-built scenes and dioramas, with model trains running through.

Pizza made fast at the counter, with your own pick of toppings.

Huge independent bookstore in a grand old bank building.

Italian place going since 1979, known for its homemade focaccia, with a kids' menu, house-made ice cream and a Sunday jazz brunch.

Boat tours out on the water to see orcas and humpbacks.

Fish and chips from a takeout shack right on the dock.

Big museum with natural history galleries, including a life-size woolly mammoth.

Breakfast and brunch diner with a run of eggs Benedict, breakfast poutine and rotisserie chicken, and a kids' menu.

Small park full of tall carved totem poles.

Small indoor zoo of live insects and spiders, some of them yours to hold.

Indoor tropical garden with butterflies flying free all around you.

Sandy beach with a playground close by.